property · PROP-CONTINUITY-THROUGH-TRANSFORMATION
Continuity through transformation
A major political or institutional break accompanied by substantial continuity in population, settlement, culture, or local practice.
Review and provenance
Specialist reviewer: not recorded. Review date: not recorded.
Dataset workflow: not recorded. This is separate from specialist review.
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Research description
This property avoids treating the end of a palace, empire, or administrative system as the disappearance of its people.
Evidence and sources
- informs · supports non catastrophist framework
Getting closer to the Late Bronze Age collapse in the Aegean and eastern Mediterranean, c. 1200 BC — Guy D. Middleton (2024) - informs · supports regional case
Cyprus at the End of the Late Bronze Age: Crisis and Colonization or Continuity and Hybridization? — Ioannis Voskos, A. Bernard Knapp (2008)